Snake45

Pactra used to have a Hot Rod Primer color in both rattlecan and bottle. It was a very dark gray that was also used by aircraft/armor modelers for things like worn tires. Today, Walmart's cheap flat black is a very, very dark gray that might work well for Hot Rod Primer. For various gray primers, I've used Model Master 36231 Dark Gull Gray (close to the '32 roadster above), 36118 Gunship Gray (not far from the 2LB '55 Chevy), and Euro I Gray. The famous and beloved Plastikote T235 is very close to Gunship Gray. Tamiya has a Panzer Gray that's kinda dark. I've also done a couple models in Model Master Black Chrome Trim as a satin black primer. It's easy to use and looks great in the role.

DOH! I should have recognized it! Just not used to seeing it on an early Mustang, I guess. Thanks!

Very clean, very nice! Well done and model on!

Probably not; probably yes.

Great color! What's the paint?

Your door lines look good. Did you use any particular technique on them?

Oh I would LOVE to polish out that lovely yellow plastic for my collection!

My refs only show it for '71 and '72, code 987, but while researching, I came across this, which is very interesting. https://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/c3-general-discussion/78496-only-ontario-orange-corvette-1970-code-991-a.html I'll buy it and build it. I have a red '70 and did another '70 as an Elkhart Green '72, so I'll do this one as an Ontario Orange '71.

And that's for a kit whose whose R&D and tooling costs were amortized during the Johnson or Nixon administrations!

Thank You for your service, Jim and other Vietnam Vets.

I've read (several times) that on a GM car (for example), $1500 or more of the purchase price goes to pay for health benefits for GM/UAW retirees.

Do you have any model airplane friends? I'll bet one of them has something the right size and shape in his box of spare/leftover bombs/rockets/fuel tanks.

Ontario Orange? Now I have to have one for my Polished Plastic collection. Hopefully it will be metallic/pearl. BTW, Ontario Orange isn't correct for a '70 Vette, but it's good for a '71 and I think maybe a '72, and the later two years are virtually identical to the '70. Oh yeah, I'm in......

You are making me want to do something similar with a JoHan Rambler American glue bomb I picked up a few months ago.

Oh you are really making me want to move my "distressed" promo to the front of the Build Line and get to work on it!

You don't go looking for glue bombs per se. You go looking for some particular type of car you want, gasp at the price of mint unbuilt kits, and then settle on an affordable "glue bomb" of the desired subject, if you think you can bring it back to life. If you're lucky, you can find something you can work with for only 10x the price the kit sold for new back in the day. If you're not quite so lucky, you'll pay 15x or 20x or more for it.

The hood vents, roof vents, and wheel covers are distinctly and uniquely '63, even though the window split can't be seen in this view.

Very very nice, very clean! Extremely clean, in fact! Well done and model on!

Probably if you stretched it three scale inches.

Anybody can build a nice kit. It takes a REAL modeler to take a SORY TURD like this and make something interesting out of it.

Sweet! Love the "sit" of the Nova. You're inspiring me to get going on a project I've had in my head for a long time now.

Very nice!

That thing is looking badass!

Then my work here is done. Thanks, friend!

It's L79 Day again! Happy Happy Happy!